Dr. Oliver Fuhrer
Dr. Oliver Fuhrer
Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Systems Science
P.O. Box 257
P.O. Box 257
Operation Center 1
8058 ZürichSwitzerland
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Oliver Fuhrer's research interest is in the understanding, analysis and prediction of the weather and climate system with a focus on high-resolution numerical weather prediction, atmospheric dynamics over complex terrain and high-performance computing. He has led numerous research projects and is a member of the Center of Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM).
Oliver Fuhrer is lecturer at the Department of Environmental Systems Science since 2010. He is department head of the unit Numerical Prediction at the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss. The departement is responsible for the innovation, further development and operations of the numerical models employed at MeteoSwiss.
Prior to working at MeteoSwiss he was Senior Director for Climate Modeling at the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Earlier, he was also research associate at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL at the Institute of Environmental Engineering and at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH. At the latter institute, he completed his Ph.D. in atomspheric dynamcis and his studies in environmental physics in the Department of Natural Sciences at ETH Zurich.
Oliver Fuhrer is author and co-author of many scientific contributions in reviewed journals and has served as a reviewer for many funding agencies. Recently, he has been spearheading the establishement of high-performance computing research geared towards atmospheric modeling within the Center for Climate Systems Modeling C2SM.